Bücher von Georg Lukács

"Remarques sur la théorie de l'histoire littéraire" de Georg Lukács, traduit par Georges Kassai, offre une analyse critique des approches de l'histoire littéraire. Lukács, philosophe et critique littéraire hongrois, propose des réflexions approfondies sur la manière dont l'histoire littéraire doit être comprise et interprétée.L'ouvrage explore la relation entre l'évolution de la société et celle de la littérature, mettant en lumière les liens entre les transformations historiques, les idées culturelles et la production littéraire. Lukács s'interroge sur le rôle de l'écrivain dans la société et sur la manière dont les ¿uvres littéraires reflètent et contribuent aux changements sociaux.La traduction de Georges Kassai permet aux lecteurs francophones de bénéficier de la pensée complexe de Lukács sur la littérature et son rapport dynamique avec le contexte historique. L'ouvrage constitue ainsi une contribution importante à la réflexion sur la méthodologie de l'histoire littéraire et son ancrage dans les mouvements sociaux et culturels.

These essays celebrate the humanist tradition of European literature that runs from Balzac, through Tolstoy and Stendhal, to Zola and beyond. Lukacs sees this tradition as the expression of humanism. Seen in this light, the great works of nineteenth-century literature have an immediate and overwhelming relevance to our need today to change society.

Georg Lukács's most recent work of literary criticism, on the Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, hails the Russian author as a major force in redirecting socialist realism toward the level it once occupied in the 1920s when Soviet writers portrayed the turbulent transition to socialist society.In the first essay Lukács compares the novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich to short pieces by bourgeois writers Conrad and Hemingway and explains the nature of Solzhenitsyn's criticism of the Stalinist period implied in the situation, characters, and their interaction. He also briefly describes Matriona's House, An Incident at the Kretchetovka Station, and For the Good of the Cause--stories that depict various aspects of life in Stalinist Russia. In the second, longer section, Lukács greets Solzhenitsyn's novels The First Circle and Cancer Ward, which were published outside Russia, as representing a new high point in contemporary world literature. These books mark Solzhenitsyn as heir to the best tendencies in postrevolutionary socialist realism and to the literary tradition of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Moreover, from the point of view of the development of the novel, Lukács finds the Russian author to be a successful exponent of innovative methods originating in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.The central problem of contemporary socialist realism is a predominant theme in the book: how to come to critical terms with the legacy of Stalin. The enthusiasm with which Lukács acclaims Solzhenitsyn will not surprise those who have followed his persistent refusal to endorse the so-called socialist realist writers of the Stalinist era. He outlines the aspects of Solzhenitsyn's creative method that allows him to cross the ideological boundaries of the Stalinist tradition, yet he finds a basic pessimism in Solzhenitsyn's work that makes him a plebeian rather than a socialist writer. Of Ivan Denisovich and the future of socialist realist literature, Lukács urges: If socialist writers were to reflect upon their task, if they were again to feel an artistic responsibility towards the great problems of the present, powerful forces could be unleashed leading in the direction of relevant socialist literature. In this process of transformation and renewal, which signifies an abrupt departure from the socialist realism of the Stalin era, the role of landmark on the road to the future falls to Solzhenitsyn's story.